About Pvt. Elijah Brown (CSA)

The Washington Post

Washington, District of Columbia

8 June 1902

Fredericksburg, VA. June 7. - Mr. Elijah Brown, a well-known Confederate soldier, was found at his home in Stafford County yesterday in an unconscious condition and severely burned, having fallen in the fire. He died last night, aged seventy-six years. During the civil war he was a member of Company A, Forty-seventh Virginia Regiment.